
If you already have Chocolatey, please skip this step. This guide will cover how to download PuTTY securely.įor much of this, we can use the Chocolatey package manager for Windows to save some grief, so let’s start by installing that. WARNING: Do not install PuTTY from its official homepage, as this will download PuTTY over an insecure connection. OpenSSH for Windows to generate SSH keys in the first place.


Using VS Code on Windows is somewhat frustrated, however, if you want to work with a Git repository that was cloned using SSH. Nicely, VS Code has built-in support for Git and support for Python through an extension, making it a useful for scientific development. Visual Studio Code is Microsoft’s open-source code editor for Windows, OS X and Linux. Using SSH Keys in Visual Studio Code on Windows

If you add the line $env:GIT_SSH="C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe" to your Powershell profile the environment variable will always be used. $env:GIT_SSH="C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe" Show keys managed by the ssh-agent ssh-add -lįor git, add a system environment variable or use a temporary setting in a PowerShell terminal of VSCode. Run these commands in a terminal window within Visual Studio Code. Set-Service ssh-agent -StartupType Automatic To enable SSH Agent automatically on Windows, start PowerShell as an Administrator and run the following commands: # Make sure you're running as an Administrator
